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Commission on AI and HIV
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The Commission on AI and HIV aims to provide strategic guidance for governments, donors, and implementers on the effective, ethical, and equitable use of AI in HIV programs.
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New post alert! Commissioner mike Reid poses questions around donor financing and how it could be used to invest in sustainable, scalable, impactful AI solutions. Read it here!
#AI4HIV #AI4good
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From Belmont to Big Data: Why Global Health Needs Principles for Donor AI Investments
In 1979, the U.S. published the Belmont Report, a readable and instructive document that reshaped biomedical research ethics. Out of the turmoil of Tuskegee and other abuses, it distilled three end…
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August 19, 2025 at 6:27 PM
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Check out Audere's Aimee, a multilingual AI companion ready to help young people in southern Africa answer all their questions around sex, relationships, and health. With current health systems at a moment of change, Aimee can step in and support. #AI4HIV #AI4Health
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Wayfinders, Not Maps – How AI Can Advance Self-Care in Global Health
A couple of months I walked the Camino de Santiago. Hundreds of kilometers on foot, one village to the next, following a simple rule: look for the yellow arrow. Painted on trees, buildings, curbs—t…
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July 29, 2025 at 6:05 PM
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Please check out Commissioner Hswen’s AI Checklist (AI-Y) for Population Ethics published in Springer Nature earlier this month!
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AI-Y: An AI Checklist for Population Ethics Across the Global Context
This paper introduces Hswen’s AI-X Checklist for Population Ethics, a structured, ten-criteria framework designed to evaluate the ethical integrity of artificial intelligence (AI) systems in popula…
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July 28, 2025 at 9:00 PM
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Check out installment 4 of mike Reid's blog, "The Alignment Problem: When Smart Systems Go Off Track"!

"...How do we ensure AI does what we want it to do, not just what we tell it to do?"

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#4/6. The Alignment Problem: When Smart Systems Go Off Track
AI may optimize for the wrong thing if we don’t align it with human values. In global health, misalignment risks reinforcing inequity and exclusion.
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July 17, 2025 at 3:45 PM
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The 3rd installment of mike Reid's blog, "The Moravec Paradox: What Machines Do Well (and What Only Humans Can Do)" is available TODAY!

Check it out! -> reimaginingglobalhealth.substack.com/p/3-the-mora...

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#3/6. The Moravec Paradox: What Machines Do Well (and What Only Humans Can Do)
Understanding AI’s strengths and its profound limitations is critical to using AI well health care.
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July 16, 2025 at 5:56 PM
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Check out mike Reid's new blog series on AI and Global health, "Paradoxes and Promises: Making Sense of AI in Global Health". Installment two is out today!
#AI4HIV #GlobalHealth
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July 15, 2025 at 6:12 PM
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Can AI make global health worse? A viewpoint in Lancet Global Health by Fiske et al., urges us to confront an uncomfortable truth: “AI may be making the world sicker, not healthier.” Read why and what we can do in today's blog. #AI4HIV #GlobalHealth #ClimateJustice
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The Climate Cost of Intelligence: Why Ethical AI in Global Health Must Go Green
In the rush to harness AI to transform global health—from optimizing HIV treatment cascades to revolutionizing disease surveillance—we may be missing a deeply uncomfortable truth: AI may be making …
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July 9, 2025 at 4:05 PM
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@jirairratevosian.bsky.social led a commentary calling for urgent and ethical integration of AI into HIV prevention systems. This reminds us to move beyond pilots and ensure the real work happens with the community to make lasting, sustainable impacts.
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AI in HIV Prevention Systems
An important commentary in The Lancet HIV, led by Commissioner Jirair Ratevosian, calls for urgent and ethical integration of AI into HIV prevention systems. Drawing from the insights of a recent c…
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June 13, 2025 at 6:08 PM
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A new paper by several of our #AI4HIV commissioners draws on projects supported by the Gates Foundation to understand how generative AI (GenAI) may help improve service delivery in LMICs. Read it now! ai4hiv.com/on-shifting-...
#AI4Health #GenAI #AI4LMICs
On Shifting Sands: Global Health, AI, and the Promise of Local Innovation
As global health funding landscapes shift and long-standing models of development assistance face increasing strain, a new paper from several Commissioners (Fola Adeleke, Caroline Govathson, Nneka …
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June 9, 2025 at 10:56 PM
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"Agent Hospital" is a hospital simulation entirely run by AGI nurse and doctor agents. While there's huge potential, like support for clinical decision making, this could reinforce inequalities without intentional design and investment.
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AGI, Agent Hospitals, and the Potential in LMICs
Imagine the scene. A dusty rural clinic in northern Malawi. The power is intermittent, the pharmacy shelf half-stocked, and a single nurse sits behind a weathered desk managing a queue of patients …
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June 4, 2025 at 10:41 PM
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In this week's blog - Could AI use cases in FINTECH provide models to transform global health? FINTECH models predicting loan defaults could inform how AI could identify those lost to care. AI uses outside of healthcare may unlock huge potential.
#AI4HIV #AI4Health
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AI in FINTECH: an example for HIV care?
In recent years, the financial technology (FinTech) industry has mastered the art of predicting loan repayments. Credit scoring tools have become incredibly sophisticated, examining everything from…
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May 30, 2025 at 8:17 PM
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Read about how a health system in Aotearoa, NZ engaged the Māori community to develop an AI governance framework! This aligns with the 4 pillars of WHO's GI-AI4H's new framework—Ethics, Regulation, Implementation, and Orientation.
#AI4HIV #AI4Health #CommunityEngagement
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A Māori Lens on Getting AI Right for Global Health
In te ao Māori—the Māori worldview—health and justice are inseparable from dignity, identity, and collective well-being. As artificial intelligence (AI) reshapes health systems worldwide, a paper f…
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May 19, 2025 at 9:47 PM
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mike Reid's recent blog post, "When the Money Stops: What Zambia's Crisis Teaches Us", discusses the devastating impact of suddenly severed financial aid and where AI may - or may not - be able to support future transitions. Check it out!
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When the Money Stops: What Zambia’s Crisis Teaches Us
— And What AI Can’t Fix
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May 13, 2025 at 8:23 PM
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Our perspective published today reflects the input of global AI & HIV experts convened at Banbury Center last year, offering a framework of 10 principles to introduce AI with humility, rigor, and accountability, to keep it honest.
#AI4HIV #AIFrameworks #NEJMAI
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10 Principles for AI in Global Health
As excitement around artificial intelligence (AI) in global health reaches a fever pitch, there’s a growing risk that we may be parading solutions that look dazzling on paper but lack substance on …
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May 9, 2025 at 6:08 PM
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New blog alert! Commission Co-Chair, Mike Reid, reviews a recent Lancet Public Health article laying out how moving forward with AI demands that we look back.
#AI4HIV #AIandEquity #Newblogalert
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AI: The way forward demands that we look back
In the Ghanaian tradition, Sankofa teaches that “it is not wrong to go back for that which you have forgotten.” Often depicted as a bird reaching back to retrieve a precious egg while continuing to…
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May 5, 2025 at 8:27 PM
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We are excited to announce the launch of the commission!
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Announcing the Lancet Global Health Commission on artificial intelligence (AI) and HIV: leveraging AI for equitable and sustainable impact
Despite substantial progress towards achieving the UNAIDS 95–95–95 targets,1 the global HIV response continues to be undermined by a multitude of complex, interrelated challenges. Persistent stigma an...
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April 15, 2025 at 11:46 PM